Tablet Users

Best Buy, selling on eBay, recently dropped the price of their 128GB Surface Pro tablet from $899 to the low price of $599. The Surface Pro offers excellent battery life, very good performance, an optional add-on of a keyboard, and light weight. For those of you looking for a tablet device with laptop-like functionality, look no further.

The specifications of the Surface Pro quite good, although starting to age. It uses an Ivy Bridge processor, a 128GB SSD and 4GB of RAM.

Best Buy is offering an Ultrabook-like laptop for the low price of $379.99. It features light weight (4.6 lbs), an Ivy Bridge Core i3 (2012 model). For those looking for an aluminum (mostly), ultra-portable laptop with a 15-inch screen, this is one of the best deals I’ve seen recently.

System Builders

Tiger Direct currently offers the freshly released Western Digital Black Squared hybrid drive at $40 off, with coupon code ‘KIY113521‘. This deal is particularly appealing to laptop users who have only a single SATA port available (very common). The Black Squared drive manages to cram a high-performance 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD (disc-based hard drive) into a single 2.5-inch form factor.

While a 120GB SSD (such as the Kingston V300) goes for around $90 and a 1TB 2.5-inch HDD costs around $70, hybrid drives offering the level of performance and reliability of the Black drive don’t really exist.

Once again, the Kingston V300 series SSD falls below the $80 price-point. It features solid performance and great reliability. For most seeking to improve the performance of their moldering laptops, SSDs often yield tremendous performance increases, particularly in responsiveness and load times.

Conclusion

Out of the deals presented here, I prefer the Surface Pro. It’s steeply discounted and, despite its middling reviews, manages to pump out great performance with fantastic build quality. This particular deal won’t last long at all, so get them before it’s gone!

A tech journalist (BA) with a background in international affairs (MA), Kannon's main interest is using technology to live better. He reports on wearable technology, gadgets, RSS, Android, and lots of other technology related trends. Follow him on his Twitter profile.